Resin Detail Parts

Resin Detail Parts are used to bring an extra level of realism to your model, whether you want to correct something on your model that’s incorrect, say the ailerons are the wrong shape you can purchase an after market resin detail set to correct this. The most common resin detail parts are for the cockpit as this area is notoriously under detailed and indeed some Airfix kits just consist of a couple of tabs for the pilot figure to sit on. (See my posts on building the Airfix Beaufighter) However you are not limited to just the cockpit and control surfaces the detail kits can have engines, gun bays, wheel wells, landing gear, canon barrels, even air and ground crew. The biggest problem you’ve got in some cases is just how much detail you want to pack into a given model! Resin detail parts are especially helpful in 1/72 scale as the level of detail in what’s known colloquially as “Braille scale” are notoriously hard to mould in plastic at this scale.